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2013 Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Humanities EXPLORING THE HUMAN ENDEAVOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 2ANNUAL01 REP3ORT CHAIRMAN’S LETTER December 2014 Dear Mr. President, It is my privilege to present the 2013 Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For forty-eight years NEH has striven through its rigorous grantmaking process to support excellence in humanities research, education, preservation, access to humanities collections, long-term planning for educational and cultural institutions, and humanities programming for the public. NEH’s 1965 founding legislation states that “democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens.” It is in response to this mission that NEH supports work in the humanities that enlightens and deepens our understanding of the world. In September 2013, NEH launched its Created Equal initiative centered on a collection of four NEH-funded films—The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story, and Freedom Riders— that trace the long history of civil rights in our nation. From the beginning, African Americans have been at the core of America’s evolving story about the changing meaning of freedom. Through free access to the films, website resources, and public discussion programs held in more than four hundred communities across the nation over the next three years, Created Equal will help make this aspect of our history accessible to everyone. At NEH, we also believe that access to the classics should be for everyone, in particular to America’s military veterans who are returning home from conflicts abroad. A 2013 grant to Aquila Theatre is helping to bring a series of scholar-led discussions and performances of classical Greek and Roman dramas to military veterans across the country. The project includes a website and a mobile app with essays and interviews on how these ancient works resonate today. The observations and theories of a scientist a hundred and fifty years ago still influence the field today. To better understand the work of Charles Darwin, the American Museum of Natural History is using an NEH grant to digitize 30,000 scientific manuscripts and letters produced and received by Darwin for access via the Darwin Manuscripts Project and Darwin Correspondence Project websites, as well as the Cambridge Digital Library. Another website passed a milestone this year— Chronicling America, a free searchable database of historical U.S. newspapers, supported by NEH and the Library of Congress, posted its 5 millionth page in 2013. Digital technology is changing how humanities professionals practice their craft, in ways that were hard to imagine just a decade ago. A new project will allow researchers to refine the use of facial recognition software to identify the subjects of centuries-old portraits, while another is developing visualization and analytical tools based on a prototype that mapped the Republic of Letters, an inter- national community of literati and scholars from the late Renaissance through the Enlightenment. Although online research is an invaluable asset, there is also an immeasurable benefit in visiting the places where history was made. Through the Landmarks of American history, each summer thousands of K–12 teachers from around the country travel to historic sites—such as Michigan’s The Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village and the River Rouge factory to study the Industrial Revolu- tion or Chicago to study the development of the skyscraper and its impact on urbanization—and take a renewed energy and understanding back to their classrooms. The effect of such learning is exponential. CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 2 It is the diligent work of researchers who make possible new insights into the human condition. From the publication of little-known materials of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when it stormed the capitals of England and Europe between 1887–1906, to the reassembly and interpretation of early Mayan murals discovered at San Bartolo, Guatemala, grants funded in research bring resources to scholars and general audiences that are critical to our collective knowledge. Sustaining humanities resources is also critical to the long-term endurance of the field. A 2013 challenge grant and matching funds helped restore buildings at the newly opened historic site of Arkansas’s Dyess Colony, a place where impoverished farmers resettled during the New Deal, including the family of Johnny Cash. Another grant for construction and an endowment will secure the preservation of the endangered Coast Salish culture and language at Northwest Indian College in Washington state. Through the programs and work of fifty-six state and territorial humanities councils, NEH is able extend the reach of the humanities in ways that touch local concerns. In Arizona, the humanities council supported a guide to Tucson’s twentieth-century tradition of neon sign advertising, including one that was designed by Georgia O’Keeffe. And, in Maryland, the council supported a traveling exhibition and film on the exquisite and heartbreaking needlework series made by Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz that documented her and her family’s story in Poland. Krinitz’s art will ensure the story is never forgotten. Last, another piece of art from a new American deserves to be mentioned—that of the newly designed National Humanities Medal. Bestowed for the first time on the 2013 medalists, the design was created by a recent immigrant from the Philippines and was chosen through a national competition. Sincerely, Acting Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 2 INTRODUCTION 5 JEFFERSON LECTURE 6 NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALISTS 7 DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 9 DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 15 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 22 DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 27 OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 34 OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 38 OFFICE OF FEDERAL/STATE PARTNERSHIP 41 PANELISTS 44 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES 44 SENIOR STAFF 45 SUMMARY OF GRANTS AND AWARDS 46 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES In order “to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States,” Congress enacted the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. This act established the National Endowment for the Humanities as an independent grant- making agency of the federal government to support research, education, and public programs in the humanities. In fiscal year 2013, grants were made through the Federal/State Partnership, four divisions (Education Programs, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and Research Programs), the Office of Challenge Grants, and the Office of Digital Humanities. The act that established the National Endowment for the Humanities says, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.” The National Endowment for the Humanities supports exemplary work to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the disciplines of the humanities. Endowment support is intended to complement and assist private and local efforts and to serve as a catalyst to increase nonfederal support for projects of high quality. To date, NEH matching grants have helped generate more than $2.4 billion in gift funds. Each application to the Endowment is assessed by knowledgeable persons outside the agency who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance of the proposed project. More than 800 scholars, professionals in the humanities, and other experts served on 183 panels throughout the year. The following lists of grants include all funds that were released in 2013, including funds that were amendments to earlier grants. For example, a summer institute awarded $170,000 in 2012 may have received an additional $10,000 in 2013 for follow-up activities. Additionally, many NEH grants receive matching funds, which are only released when the private gift donations are secured, perhaps over the course of several years. These matching funds awarded in 2013 are indicated by a single asterisk (*) throughout. A double asterisk (* *) denotes a Chairman’s grant, which is a fast-track grant awarded up to $30,000 at the discretion of the chairman of NEH. For more complete information on any project, please use the grant search tool on the NEH website, www.neh.gov. INTRODUCTION 5 JEFFERSON LECTURE On April 1, 2013, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese presented the forty- second Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in the Concert Hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He spoke about the urgency to save films that are in danger of being lost, and the inspiration and lessons that these films offer to the visual literacy of audiences and filmmakers today. The lecture, titled “The Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,” was followed by an informal, onstage Q & A with film critic Kent Jones. The evening began with a film clip from the 1950 British movie The Magic Box, about the life and work of William Friese-Greene, one of the inventors of moving pictures, as he excitedly runs to the street and pulls in a passing policeman (played by Lawrence Olivier) to view the culmination of his life’s work: a two-minute movie of people in Hyde Park. Scorsese was eight years old when his father took him to see this movie. “I’ve never really gotten over the impact that it had,” he said. “I believe this is what ignited in me the wonder of cinema, and the obsession—of watching movies, making them, inventing them.” Scorsese went on to earn a master’s from the New York University School of Film and direct fifty-nine movies, including The Departed, which won an Academy Award in 2007 (he’s had eight other films nominated) and a Golden Globe.
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